Archive for the 'Psychology/Sentiment' Category

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As the nation reflects on the horror of recent events involving gun violence and a young man that may have needed mental health intervention, it becomes more evident that subjects that are not often discussed public will be part of the national debate. Society has become more open in reflecting on controversial behavior and [...]

Saturday Financial Blog Posts

Chart Fest 1-24
6 Free E-File Options
Stupid Things Not To Do When When Buying College Text Books Online
Finding the Hard Truth on Your Federal Tax Burdens
Doubled down on Trina Solar (TSL)
Phoenix: How bad are foreclosures where you live
The Cost of Independent Health Insurance
How to File Your Taxes for Free – Free Tax Software and [...]

Palin plus Gustav equals Oil Prices in the Tank

Image via Wikipedia USO – the ETF playing the Oil markets – has just broken even for the day after being up all day due to concerns about hurricane Gustav in the gulf. Is Sarah Palin raining on the oil market bull’s parade? A category 3 hurricane is having much less of an [...]

McCain picks Palin as Running Mate

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McCain picks Palin as VP running mate
Sarah Palin is the Gov of Alaska – what an excellent choice. Could this mean President Palin in 4-8 years?
I first learned about Gov. Palin on Kudlow and Co. She is a very interesting person, young, smart and well spoken. [...]

Evaluate then Improve

How can you measure success? Is it simply comparing yourself to friends, family and neighbors? How important is it to you to keep up with the Jones? Or is success a more personal and internal feeling than can’t be measured by physical things?
If pondering questions like these get your creative juices flowing, [...]

Squawk Boxes and NLP

As I was writing A peak at Natural Language Processing I excluded the “spoken language” component of NLP to simplify certain arguments surrounding this sub-field in AI. A couple hours later I remembered a discussion I had with a friend many years ago. He had been looking at new services via the web [...]

Prophecy Self-fulfillment

How much of today’s stock market conventional wisdom is actually self-fulfilling prophecies. The study of price action in charts is an activity that permeates all aspects of the markets – stocks – bonds – commodities. Do the “rules” that traders extract from the study of charts evolve from continual positive feedback – prophecy [...]